Charles Courtney Curran
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Charles Courtney Curran (born February 13, 1861 in Hartford , Kentucky , † November 9, 1942 in Manhattan , New York ) was an American painter.
Life
Curran was a son of the sales representative Ulysses Thompson Curran and his wife Elizabeth. At the age of 18 he attended the Cincinnati School of Design for a year in 1879 . When his family around 1880 in Sandusky ( Ohio settled), he joined and left this school.
In 1882 Curran went to New York and studied there until 1887 at the National Academy of Design . He then went to Paris , supported by his lecturers, and became a student of Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant , Henri Lucien Doucet and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian . At the annual exhibition of the Salon de Paris in 1890, one of his works was publicly praised and awarded. Pictures of him were also exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1890.
After his return to the United States , Curran was entrusted with various teaching positions in New York; u. a. at the Pratt Institute , the Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design , of which he became an Associate Member ( ANA ) in 1888. During this time, Curran married and settled in Cragsmoor, a village near the Shawankgunk Mountains in Ulster County , NY. There he also set up a spacious studio and over time a small group of artists established around him. Over time, Curran became the new focal point of the Cragsmoor Art Colony , an artists' colony founded by Edward Lamson Henry .
Since his return from Paris, Curran has worked as a freelancer for Palette & Brush magazine ; he regularly wrote articles for this magazine.
Memberships
- Allied Art Association
- American Watercolor Society
- Lotos Club
- MacDowell Club
- National Arts Club
- New York Watercolor Club
- Salmagundi Club
- Society of American Artists
Works (selection)
- Illumination at the exhibition . 1889
- Lotus lilies . 1888
- An afternoon respite . 1894
- Heirlooms . 1922
- Betty Newell . 1922 (portrait)
- Among the hollyhocks . 1904
- Blueberries and ferns . 1911
- The huckleberry picker . 1922
- Ladies on a hill . 1914
- Dolly's portrait . 1901
- Lucky in yellow . 1893
- Three women . 1894
literature
- Samuel Isham: The history of American painting. Macmillan, New York 1944.
- Edmund von Mach : Curran, Charles Courtney . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 210 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Steve Shipp: American Art Colonies, 1850-1930. A historical guide to America's original art colonies and their artists. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT 1986, ISBN 0-313-29619-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "C" / Curran, Charles Courtney ANA 1888 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 19, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Curran, Charles Courtney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1942 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York City |